 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Publication Date: January 7, 2002The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas. ...
 |  | The Rookie's Assignment (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: February 7, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Suspense Law enforcement in Fitzgerald Bay is full of Fitzgeralds, from the chief of police to brand-new detective Keira Fitzgerald. Are they tampering with a murder investigation to protect one of their own? Internal affairs detective Nick Delfino is sent undercover to investigate the powerful clan. Yet the deeper he digs, the more Nick comes to admire the Fitzgeralds...especially his rookie partner, Keira. When a killer targets Nick, can he maintain his cover, catch his attacker and protect Keira while the looming danger closes in? ...
|  | Tamarack River Ghost: A Novel
Publication Date: November 2, 2012<DIV>When journalist Josh Wittmore moves from the Illinois bureau of Farm Country News to the newspaper’s national office in Wisconsin, he encounters the biggest story of his young career—just as the paper’s finances may lead to its closure. Josh’s big story is that a corporation that plans to establish an enormous hog farm has bought a lot of land along the Tamarack River in bucolic Ames County. Some of the local residents and officials are excited about the jobs and tax revenues that the big farm will bring...
|  | Realms: Beneath the Dust
Publication Date: December 16, 2008Crime scene investigator Rachel Cohen is accustomed to dealing with death. It's part of her job, and she keeps her emotions out of it. In fact, nothing seems to get to the smart, sexy and savvy investigator. As if life wasn't getting complicated enough, she finds that her beloved lead detective and mentor retires, mysteriously making way for Rachel's first love, Hal, to step in as her new boss. Confidence, sarcasm and wit have always been in her corner, even amidst the most trying of circumstances... But that all changes when Rachel decides to wipe the dust...
|  | Super Cell Anemia
Publication Date: January 9, 2008A man who is obsessed with germs is obliged to bite on copper strips to keep from electrocuting himself--or others.While chased by a mutant cat man, suspected by the police, and desperately searching for a cure, it's no wonder that dating presents a particular challenge. ...
|  | Sugarless
Publication Date: October 22, 2009Things look bad for Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore in a cookie-cutter Chicago suburb in 1976. His mother’s second husband is a licensed psychologist who eats like an ape, his stepsister is a stoner slut, and his father is engaged to a Southern belle. Rick’s only solace is his growing collection of original Broadway-cast LPs, bought on the sly at Wax Trax. After he brings two girls in speech class to tears by reading a story aloud, Rick is coaxed onto the interscholastic forensics team to perform an eight-minute dramatic...
|  | Between Love and Honor
Release Date: April 10, 2012Jamal Eddin Shamil is only eight years old when he is stolen from his native Caucasus Mountains and whisked away by Russian soldiers to the glittering court at St. Petersburg. There Czar Nicholas takes a special interest in his exotic Muslim hostage, the eldest son of Chechen warrior chief Imam Shamil. In St. Petersburg, Jamal Eddin is immersed in imperial life, educated alongside the czar’s own sons and gradually maturing into the consummate courtier. Through it all, he remains true to the Muslim faith of his father—until he falls in love with a bea...
|  | Verano / Summertime: Escenas de una vida de provincias III / Scenes from Provincial Life III (Spanish Edition)
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|  | A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book
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|  | Hildur, Queen of the Elves: And Other Icelandic Legends (International Folk Tales)
Publication Date: August 1, 2006| Series: International Folk Tales In 870 AD, the first explorers arrived on the volcanic island that one day would be called Iceland. The men and women Who settled there, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, beside the last vestiges of ancient Ice Age glaciers, were a resourceful and hardy folk. They withstood fierce winter storms, plunging arctic temperatures, violent volcanic eruptions, powerful earthquakes, and the lonely isolation of this distant island.In the eleventh century, Iceland's governing body grew weary of civil war and grudgingly accepted the rule...
|  | The Odyssey (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: September 17, 1993| ISBN-10: 0393964051 | ISBN-13: 978-0393964059| Edition: Second Edition The Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition continues to be based on Albert Cook’s translation, widely acclaimed for its poetic phrasing and linguistic accuracy.The English translation of Homer’s masterpiece matches the Greek line for line; no other translation is more faithful to the original. The result is a melodic version that preserves Homer’s style.A glossary and a map of the Greek world accompany the text.The Odyssey in Antiquity provides con...
|  | Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology Volume 1
Publication Date: May 20, 2012| ISBN-10: 1236301358 | ISBN-13: 978-1236301352This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ... the swore if they should ever succeed in detaching Pompci from his interests. It was therefore of the first importance for him to obtain an army, which he might attach to himself by victories and rewards. But he was not dazzled by the wealth of Asia to obtain a command in the East, for he would then have b...
|  | Propertius, Elegies (Loeb Classical Library No. 18)
Publication Date: January 1, 1990| ISBN-10: 067499020X | ISBN-13: 978-0674990203 The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in which he lives, while in later poems he turns to mythological themes and the legends of early Rome. In this new edition of Propertius, G. P. Goold solves some longstanding questions of interpretation and gives us a faithful and stylish prose translation. His expla...
|  | Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Rebirth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry
Publication Date: June 2002How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the Firebird is the first book-length study in English of the early life and work of Yosano Akiko (1879-1942), the most famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Akiko, who was born into a merchant family in the port city of Sakai near Osaka, from earliest childhood to her twenties, charting the slow process of development before the seemingly sudden metamorphos...
|  | Charlestown Blues: Selected Poems, a Bilingual Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0226300749 | ISBN-13: 978-0226300740| Edition: Bilingual Letter to the unknown woman across the street, ICurtains, blinds, draperies, shades, no, nothingMadame, to conceal from your Cyclops’ eyein the shadows from which it spies on methis long pale body, false corpse tired outwith debauchery, which is swooning toobefore your balcony, with your dryingstockings and scanties of a nun at bay—poisonous flowers for a lonely manwhom death panics, draws erect, demarrowsin the night, riveted to your white thighs. Readers who denounce ...
|  | Reading Berlin 1900
Publication Date: January 20, 1998| ISBN-10: 0674748824 | ISBN-13: 978-0674748828 The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience. It is a sharp-edged story with cameo appearances by Georg S...
|  | Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life
Publication Date: October 1, 1998With literature as his central theme, the author of this history of children's books in England also wove in biography and facts of social and commercial history. This edition has additional biographical notes, a supplementary chapter on the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and 60 illustrations. ...
|  | Portrait in Death
Release Date: March 1, 2003| Series: In Death After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the body of a young woman in a Delancey street dumpster. Just hours before, the news station had mysteriously received a portfolio of professional portraits of the woman. The photos seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary for any pretty young woman starting a modeling career. Except that she wasn't a model. And that these photos were taken after she had been murdered.Now Dallas is on the trail of a killer who's a perfectionist and an artist. He carefully observes and records his victim's every move. ...
|  | Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: September 1, 1998| Series: Signet Regency Romance A lovely young woman is the guardian of her cousin's son, whom she has cared for since his parents's death, and loved as her own. Her wealthy relatives question the true parentage of the boy, placing his inheritance and their future in jeopardy. Then a handsome mill owner offered to tutor the young boy, catching the eye of his guardian, as well. But could she really find love while harboring a scandalous secret than no man could know.... ...
| ![Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not? [The Chisholms of Texas 1] (Siren Publishing Classic)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BMuF9jnPL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not? [The Chisholms of Texas 1] (Siren Publishing Classic)") | Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not? [The Chisholms of Texas 1] (Siren Publishing Classic)
Publication Date: January 23, 2012| Series: The Chisholms of Texas [Siren Classic: Erotic Cowboy Romance] Xander Chisholm is the head of Chisholm Ranch, a huge ranch in Southern Texas. Ten years ago, Xander was devastated by the actions of a woman who was supposed to love him. Since that time, Xander has given up on love and has a well-earned love-'em-and-leave-'em reputation. Jordan Prescott is a native New Yorker who loses everything in a fire. Her best friend since college, Jessie Chisholm, talks her into starting over in Dry Creek. Although not totally naive, Jordan is an innocent and ha...
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